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Kai Sanders

@kaisanders1

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I build scalable healthcare, fintech, and e-commerce data platforms and streaming pipelines.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a role where I can solve challenging data problems, take ownership, and continue growing as a senior engineer. I also value a collaborative team where I can build reliable, scalable data systems and make a meaningful business impact.

At Komodo Health, I build healthcare data platforms that process 15M+ daily clinical encounters through S3, Databricks/PySpark, and Snowflake, improving next-day patient-journey availability.

I modernized claims ingestion with incremental, idempotent pipelines and Airflow orchestration, cutting selected daily processing windows by 30–40%. I also built reusable dbt and Snowflake patient-journey models that reduced complex analysis preparation from days to hours.

Previously at BILL, I built payment lifecycle platforms, reduced Finance data readiness from six hours to four, and brought payment-monitoring visibility from 45 minutes to under five minutes with Kafka, Kinesis, and Spark streaming.

Across Komodo Health, BILL, and Groupon, I've improved pipeline reliability, data quality, governance, lineage, and performance while mentoring engineers and partnering with product, finance, security, clinical, and analytics teams.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Data Engineer

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Komodo Health

May 2022 - Present (4 years 4 months)

Designed and built a healthcare data platform processing 15M+ daily clinical encounters, improving next-day patient-journey availability. Modernized claims ingestion with incremental, idempotent PySpark pipelines and Airflow orchestration, cutting processing windows 30-40% while preserving late-arriving corrections.